[Sorvi-admin] Followup on Share Conference (garden map)

[Leo Lahti]

Hi, Mirco!

it was good to meet you at Share. It was definitely the most inspiring
single event around digital culture I've ever participated, I guess
also this feeling was shared among the other things. Our project site
is at http://louhos.github.com/en/ unless you already checked it out.

Regarding your question on what municipal data to visualize with
flowers in Italy (really cool idea, by the way, like it :-) The
situation varies from country to country but I would perhaps start by
checking if OpenStreetMap (or perhaps GoogleMaps) has well-annotated
data on your region of interest. This could give some ideas
(types/sizes/numbers/colours of buildings etc?). Another would be
population density - such data recently became available for Helsinki
with a relatively good resolution but I doubt if this is the case in
Italy. I will think more, and send you further ideas if I bump into
something.

I'm putting the developer list (Juuso Parkkinen & Joona Lehtomäki) on
cc for inspiration, and perhaps they come up with further suggestions.
You could also note the Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki 17-22.9.
this year (http://okfestival.org/).

All the best, let's keep in touch!

/ Leo

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Mirko Nikolic <info at mirkonikolic.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Leo
>
> it was a great pleasure to meet you at Share Conference. I hope you enjoyed
> Belgrade, too! (Considering that you managed to visit all the best places on
> the Share by Night, I think you did)
>
> I would like to ask you for some advice concerning an art project I am
> working on. It is a kind of applied information mapping.
> It is a work that will be exhibited in an art show Ecoismi 2012 at Cassano
> d'Adda, a small municipality near Milano, Italy.
> The area of intervention is a park in the town, so I proposed to plant a
> garden. Basically speaking, the garden will reproduce the map of the city
> with flowers representing buildings.
>
> The fact that I am struggling about is how to use creatively different plant
> colours as it might be an additional dimension of information.
> First I thought of choosing colour as to the function of the buildings, it
> seems a bit dull because I will have entire zones of the same colour.
> Considering that you have great experience of communal data, would you have
> any idea of what other variable I could represent by using colours?
> I was thinking of demographic density per town block, but I do not know if
> municipalities have data on every single household...
>
> I put online the diagram of the project so you can visualise the idea.
>
> Any idea, hint or advice would be much appreciated!!!
>
> Thank you very much. I look forward to your kind reply.
> --
>
> Mirko Nikolić
> www.mirkonikolic.com
> +381 62 176 10 29
> Ul. Drinčićeva 28
> 101208 Belgrade
> Serbia
>
>